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Article #237: French Agency Releases Ufo Files: Don't Start Serving The Crepes Just Yet!

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CNES and Geipan placed over thirty years That's because I received official
worth of UFO investigation materials Russian News Articles and private
online as of Thursday, March 22, 2007. newsletters published in countries once
CNES is the official French Space Agency controlled by the Soviets for years
and Geipan is an agency of the French before that release. These were sent to
National Police. Are the files a hot me by serious researchers in those
Smoking Gun, or just another order of countries who appreciated receiving
cold French Fries? materials from me.
CNES receives about fifty to one hundred Thanks to the efforts of Russian language
UFO reports each year. The investigative students who donated their time, most of
process they use is convoluted and quite what I received was quickly translated
different from what most Americans would and contained a huge amount of
expect. Geipan apparently does most of information about the UFO phenomenon in
the field work, prepares reports and Russia and Eastern Europe. Ironically, I
passes everything on to CNES. Scientists could not find a single incident
and Engineers take a look at that data mentioned in those articles and
and prepare some sort of final report or newsletters that matched any in the KGB
appraisal of the matter in question. information releases. I felt then and now
Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical that the information I received from
engineer who heads the office for the those individuals was as good or better
study of "non-identified aerospatial than most of what was released by the
phenomena" has said that "the data that KGB.
we are releasing doesn't demonstrate the In 1989 I had the opportunity to meet
presence of extraterrestrial beings. But Marina Lavrentrevna Vasliyevna Popovich
it doesn't demonstrate the impossibility at a press event in New York City. Marina
of such presence either. The questions was a pilot in the Soviet Air Force,
remain open." holder of thirteen world aviation records
On the day of the announcement and press and a former Test Cosmonaut. She spoke of
conference, CNES security was tight. personal UFO encounters and those she had
While calling the release "a world first" heard about from other pilots. While the
and glowing over his nation's openness information was fascinating, it was not
about the UFO subject, Patenet failed to anywhere near the best that her
explain the need "to screen out uninvited government had to offer about UFOs and
UFOlogists" as an explanation for the Extra-Terrestrial Life. UFO Researchers
added security. This hardly provides would be wise to view the CNES-Geipan
evidence for anyone to believe the information in the same manner.
agency's files represent a fair and Like America, France is known for having
unbias look at the phenomenon. However, two faces. Their public face, and the one
compared to the actions of their American they use for behind the scenes political
counterpart, this is like allowing people posturing. A good example of this
to walk into French Intelligence recently came to light when it a secret
Headquarters and browse through their communication between France and Israel
files. was leaked to the press. While publicly
Every time American UFO Researchers ask condemning Israel's advance into Lebanon
their own space agency for any not long ago, the French Government
information about astronaut encounters or secretly encouraged them to invade Syria
unusual phenomenon encountered by space and institute a regime change. The USA
probes, NASA clams up and sends out the plays the same games.
debunkers en force. Although many During the 1990s, President Clinton
Astronauts have been forthcoming and very announced that the government had allowed
honest about what they have seen in secret radiation tests on American
space, the space agency always slams the Citizens. All he admitted was that small
door on them. More than a few have been amounts of irradiated materials were
hit right between the eyes by NASA which released into population centers or
claims that the Astronaut statements were planted on soldiers during military
the results of space sickness, fatigue or exercises. No one believes that was all
depression. But before we give the French of it and everyone already knew about
too big a pat on the back, let's look at military exercises held during and very
what's being released. close to atomic bomb tests. Clinton
The CNES-Geipan reports only represent certainly did not make mention of how the
what people have reported to the French CIA implanted tiny devices into the heads
Government as UFO sightings and of U.S. and Canadian psychiatric patients
encounters. This is in no way, shape or for over twenty years without permission.
form a release of information that allows Nor did he discuss any of the other
us to examine all that the French know government mind control or remote viewing
about the phenomenon. Although the projects which have left large numbers of
investigations have obviously been victims in their wake.
handled in a more competent and Information releases like the latest from
professional manner, this is really CNES and Geipan can only be helpful in
little more than a French version of the terms of research and data, but no one
U.S. Project Blue Book Report. should give France, Russia or any other
We have seen these types of releases nation credit for what should have been
before over the past several decades. In done all along. It would be a mistake to
each case, the information came from offer nations like these kudos for
individual government agencies, not the releasing bits and pieces of UFO and
government itself. I recall when everyone other paranormal research data when so
got all excited about the release of the much still remains secret.
KFB files on UFOs. I was unimpressed.






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